Hair Analysis Testing

If you have arrived at this page, then you are probably asking, "Why would I get a Hair Mineral Analysis?"

Probably the best answer is because you want to improve your current state of health and experience the highest levels of optimum health and vitality possible for you.

BUT first, to achieve your health objectives you first need to DISCOVER what the root causes of your health condition and symptoms are. To be able to properly address them, finding out what is going on is the fastest way to truly heal and achieve your health goals.

Hair Analysis has become an increasingly popular tool for gaining a deeper understanding of one's health and the factors that are effecting it. It is probably one of the most efficient ways to determine what levels of heavy metal toxicity or mineral deficiency are in your body, contributing to your health condition and symptoms.

Common Symptoms of mineral imbalances include

Fatigue, headaches, hypertension, depression, irritability, blood sugar imbalances, adrenal dysfunction, anxiety, autoimmune diseases, brain fog, poor concentration and more.

In fact, heavy metal toxicity and mineral deficiency have been linked to many degenerative diseases like Autism, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromylagia and the list continues to grow every year. Many health conditions didn't even exist 100 years ago.

This increase in many of our modern diseases can be directly compared to the rise of toxic contamination in our environment, which in turn has been contributing to toxic accumulation in our bodies.

Why would you want to use the information provided by hair analysis to help you re-balance your minerals?

The importance of a healthy balance of macro and trace elements in your body is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the most fundamental requirements for optimum health and vitality.

Their functions range from providing support for the formation of teeth and bones, to maintaining nerve conduction, enzyme functions and muscle contraction. Some minerals are key contributors to hundreds of bio-chemical processes, essential for LIFE.

Thousands of bio-chemical reactions ultimately control your metabolism, digestion and the regeneration of body tissues. The majority of these chemical reactions depend on certain trace nutrients for their activity.

The connections between minerals and health is gaining recognition by top experts from many health professions. Their involvement in the prevention of cancer, degenerative diseases, aging and even your emotional state is being extensively studied and proven out.

Direct links between heavy metals and mineral deficiency have already been proven as being the cause, or at the very least contributing factors for many of today's so called, "in-curable diseases".

Hair Analysis for Heavy Metals

Further complicating the matter is the fact that even though many essential minerals are necessary for health and vitality, excessive accumulation can also prove disastrous. For instance, both iron and copper, although considered essential elements can also accumulate in the body to the point of toxicity.

Heavy metals, are called so because their high atomic weight actually DISPLACE many of the lighter, essential elements.

Vital organs and bodily processes are then compromised, which in turn makes them function less efficiently and even degenerate as they do not have the essential minerals to function correctly. Heavy metals such as Mercury, Lead, Arsenic and Cadmium are very common as they are ever present in our environment.

Heavy metals and other toxic elements accumulate in our bodies and interfere with the way minerals and vitamins are used. This disturbs healthy metabolic functioning and creates various degrees of disease in your body.

As an example, lead and cadmium have been shown to be antagonistic towards essential minerals such as calcium. Excessive levels of lead or cadmium can sequester within bone tissue, antagonistically driving out calcium from your bones.

This in turn weakens the integrity of your bone structure and connective tissues, because both lead and cadmium have no real biological value in supporting the processes involved in proper bone health like calcium does.

Many years later, this toxic accumulation develops into mineral imbalances that in turn develop into Arthritis, Osteoporosis and many degenerative joint conditions.

Why use hair analysis, and not blood or urine?

Hair mineral analysis has been accepted as an effective tissue for the biological monitoring of toxic heavy metals by the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and as such has gained acceptance world wide.

Here are the fundamental differences:

Urine testing
Measures the amount that is excreted, not what is being ABSORBED by the body.

Blood testing
Measures the amount that is being ABSORBED and TEMPORARILY in circulation before it is excreted or stored.

Compared to the above two testing methods, hair analysis offers a number of distinct advantages in determining mineral status.

Firstly, hair is a fairly slow growing tissue, so there are no fluctuations in mineral levels in the body. For instance, if you ate several bananas before having a blood test, then your blood potassium level might be high that day.

If you then go in the next day and you didn't eat bananas, then your blood potassium may be normal.

With hair analysis an average is created over a longer period of time, (3 months) which would be a better indicator of long term dietary habits and exposures, rather than an indicator of what the
body has been exposed to over the last day or two.

Secondly, hair analysis accurately reflects the storage levels of minerals in your body, rather than just what is currently being transported in the blood.

After all, the key to improving your health condition is finding out what your body has absorbed and stored within body tissues, not in what is properly being transported out. This information can help you to find out what it is that is either contributing to or creating the conditions and symptoms you are experiencing, which in turn helps you to create a road map for reclaiming your health and vitality.

The criticisms of hair analysis

Even though hair analysis as a diagnostic method has been performed for over 30 years, it still receives criticism from people who see it as too new, and therefore more research would be required to prove it's efficiency.

The reality however is that hair analysis laboratory procedures have advanced substantially, as have many modern technologies that we use frequently in our day to day lives. Advances in this area are directly comparable to advancements in computer hardware and information technology.

Most criticism that still circulates is from more than 20 years ago, from outdated information that has absolutely NOTHING to do with modern procedures for accurate hair analysis testing.

In many ways, it would be like comparing an 8-track player to an iPod or mp3 player! Today's testing instruments are far more advanced than the equipment that was in use 20 years ago.

In fact, just in the last few years alone millions of hair analysis tests have been performed on hair samples from individuals across the world. The Lab techniques, procedures and instrumentation have been well refined.

Today, ALL REPUTABLE laboratories are licensed and certified by state and federal regulatory agencies. The validity of hair analysis testing has continued to grow, with organizations like the EPA and both allopathic and naturopathic health professionals coming to embrace hair analysis testing to help their patients achieve their health objectives.

Are all hair analysis laboratories created equally?

Sadly no. Despite the gaining credibility of hair analysis by many health professionals, care should still be taken to choose the best hair analysis laboratory services available. "Discount Hair Analysis" providers, although cheap alternatives are often found to be inaccurate or lacking in the amount of insight they actually provide.

Further, the real value in hair analysis is in properly INTERPRETING and UNDERSTANDING the results that are provided. Charts and graphs, mean very little without an objective and a health plan for getting the most out of your hair analysis results.

HairAnalysisKit.com offers more than just being a place where you can go to get a hair analysis online. IN FACT, we often receive calls from the clients of other providers after they were disappointed in their experience. Websites and their associated businesses that offer 50 different services often have very limited experience in providing accurate hair analysis results and interpretation.

Our main focus is helping our clients to achieve their optimum health and vitality by helping them to actually apply the information they are given. We have trained staff that are able to answer your questions, furthermore Dr. Keri Dennis, our nutritional consultant has 10 years of experience helping people just like YOU to detoxify, nourish and reach their health program objectives.

Because QUALITY and ACCURACY is important, all of our hair samples go directly through one of the most distinguished and well respected labs in the country.

For instance, numerous studies have shown that washing hair samples at the lab will often erratically effect the accuracy of results by washing out the water soluble elements.

A 2001 study in the Journal of the AMA (Seidel, S. et al., Assessment of Commercial Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral
Analysis, JAMA, 285(1) Jan 3:67-72.) shows that only two laboratories did not wash the hair samples. Ours is one of them, which the study goes on to explain that the results our lab reported were the most accurate and showed the highest degree of reliability.

AFTER ALL, If you can't get RELIABLE and ACCURATE results ... then why get a hair analysis?

Here are a few more things you should know about our lab

• As mentioned, we do NOT wash our hair samples or expose them to cleaning agents like alcohol like some other providers do.

• Our lab is considered one of the three largest in North America, and is also the ONLY lab of it's size whose main focus is hair analysis, not 20 different areas of testing.

• Our lab has been in operation for more than 25 years, is fully licensed and certified by both state and federal regulatory agencies.

• Our lab undergoes regular inspections by the Clinical laboratory Division of the Department of Health and Human Services, (HCFA).

• In this time, our lab has analyzed and reported on 100's of thousands of hair mineral analyses world wide.

• Our lab adheres to ongoing Quality Control and Quality Assurance programs that adhere to CLIA guidelines for precision, reliability and top quality laboratory practices.

• Our laboratory uses state of the art technologies like ICP-MS (Mass Spectrometry), the most modern and advanced analytical technology to be applied to trace element mineral analysis. Many laboratories are still using older technologies such as ICP-OES (Optical Emissions Spectrometry) and AA (Atomic Spectrometry).

• Our lab has recently developed an extremely comprehensive state-of-the art data management program that uses automated quality control (AQC) software to assist the chief laboratory director in validating ALL test results prior to release.

With Hair Analysis Kit.com, you can be assured of the most accurate and reliable results available today!

How do you get started?

Using our convenient process you can have your hair analysis sample prepared and sent in less than 15 minutes:

1. Ordering your hair analysis kit

Simply purchase your hair analysis kit and the health support option that you would like to have. There is no need to wait 1 week until it arrives in the mail!

When you download and print off your hair analysis kit, it will include your client submittal form, instructions for sampling, a book and all the support by email or phone that you need.

Note: All unused kits qualify for a FULL Refund, please review our Return Requests page if you would like to know more.

2. Prepare your hair analysis sample

Simply follow the instructions that you would have received after your purchase, prepare a 250mg sample of hair (one heaping tablespoon, sampled from 4 - 5 areas around the nape of your neck so that it isn't noticeable) and package it as per the instructions.

3. Send your hair sample

After you send your sample to the address provided, keep an eye on your inbox as you will receive an email notification in the next few days confirming that it has safely arrived. Included in this email will be an estimate of how long it will take until you have the final results.

4. Approximately 10 Days Later ...

Your final results will be sent within hours of it being released from the lab, approximately 14+ pages of information will be sent as a .pdf attachment to your email address.

Please contact us if you have any questions!
1-800-548-0732 (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm PST)

Note: If you have booked an appointment with our nutritional consultant to discuss your results, a detoxification protocol or any other health objective, then please use the appointment scheduler that would have been sent by email to book your appointment.

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